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Bihar Literacy Rate 2011

Literacy rate in Bihar has seen upward trend and is 61.80 percent as per 2011 population census. Of that, male literacy stands at 71.20 percent while female literacy is at 51.50 percent. In 2001, literacy rate in Bihar stood at 47.00 percent of which male and female were 59.68 percent and 33.12 percent literate respectively.
In actual numbers, total literates in Bihar stands at 5,25,04,553 of which males were 3,16,08,023 and females were 2,08,96,530.

Literacy Rate

	Literates				Literacy rate(%)
State/District	Persons	Male		Female	Persons	Male	Female
Bihar	5,25,04,553		3,16,08,023	2,08,96,530	61.80	71.20	51.50
Araria	11,95,768		7,27,643	4,68,125	53.53	62.30	43.93
Arwal	3,86,351		2,35,279	1,51,072	67.43	79.06	54.85
Aurangabad	14,66,002		8,68,733	5,97,269	70.32	80.11	59.71
Banka	9,65,321		5,90,961	3,74,360	58.17	67.62	47.66
Begusarai	15,48,673		9,18,507	6,30,166	63.87	71.58	55.21
Bhagalpur	15,73,066		9,37,669	6,35,397	63.14	70.30	54.89
Bhojpur	15,99,151		9,73,486	6,25,665	70.47	81.74	58.03
Buxar	9,89,807		5,93,544	3,96,263	70.14	80.72	58.63
Darbhanga	18,16,634		11,25,566	6,91,068	56.56	66.83	45.24
East Champaran	22,76,957		14,07,603	8,69,354	55.79	65.34	45.12
Gaya	22,97,613		13,68,803	9,28,810	63.67	73.31	53.34
Gopalganj	13,82,998		7,93,905	5,89,093	65.47	76.51	54.81
Jamui	8,58,588		5,34,385	3,24,203	59.79	71.24	47.28
Jehanabad	6,18,881		3,74,412	2,44,469	66.80	77.66	55.01
Khagaria	7,68,028		4,61,153	3,06,875	57.92	65.25	49.56
Kishanganj	7,45,056		4,39,921	3,05,135	55.46	63.66	46.76
Kaimur (Bhabua)	9,20,276		5,49,923	3,70,353	69.34	79.37	58.40
Katihar	12,80,190		7,62,256	5,17,934	52.24	59.36	44.39
Lakhisarai	5,07,270		3,05,182	2,02,088	62.42	71.26	52.57
Madhubani	21,55,338		13,40,085	8,15,253	58.62	70.14	46.16
Munger	8,01,817		4,73,741	3,28,076	70.46	77.74	62.08
Madhepura	8,34,577		5,17,666	3,16,911	52.25	61.77	41.74
Muzaffarpur	25,09,232		14,87,117	10,22,115	63.43	71.28	54.67
Nalanda	15,19,933		9,19,558	6,00,375	64.43	74.86	53.10
Nawada	10,91,012		6,59,474	4,31,538	59.76	69.98	48.86
Patna	34,59,679		20,28,047	14,31,632	70.68	78.48	61.96
Purnia	13,32,326		8,05,261	5,27,065	51.08	59.06	42.34
Rohtas	17,99,832		10,61,783	7,38,049	73.37	82.88	62.97
Saharsa	8,04,996		5,06,374	2,98,622	53.20	63.56	41.68
Samastipur	21,42,880		12,93,575	8,49,305	61.86	71.25	51.51
Sheohar	2,83,698		1,71,645	1,12,053	53.78	61.31	45.26
Sheikhpura	3,28,676		1,96,431	1,32,245	63.86	73.56	53.40
Saran	21,57,454		12,85,767	8,71,687	65.96	77.03	54.42
Sitamarhi	14,36,794		8,85,188	5,51,606	52.05	60.64	42.41
Supaul	10,33,283		6,47,672	3,85,611	57.67	69.62	44.77
Siwan	19,30,175		11,15,906	8,14,269	69.45	80.23	58.66
Vaishali	19,26,740		11,52,576	7,74,164	66.60	75.41	56.73
West Champaran	17,59,481		10,91,226	6,68,255	55.70	65.59	44.69
Source: Census of India 2011